Cloud Operations Infrastructure Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Locations Arlington, Virginia, US Posted 34 days ago $99,000–$225,000 / year
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TL;DR

As a Lead Cloud Operations Infrastructure Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton supporting the United States Air Force, you will oversee the design and optimization of secure cloud infrastructure across multiple CSPs like AWS, Azure, GCP, and DoW-affiliated managed environments. Your daily tasks include leading engineering teams to ensure compliance with cybersecurity standards in IL2-IL6, JWICS, or SAP-accredited cloud environments, driving operational readiness, incident response, and environment hardening. You will work closely with cybersecurity teams and mission owners to accelerate accreditation timelines and coordinate across development teams using CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible. Expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle clouds, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices is essential for this role, which requires a Secret clearance and experience leading cloud operations teams in secure DoW environments.

Skills

AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes CI/CD Terraform GitOps Helm Flux Argo CD GitHub Actions GitLab CI Ansible Rancher RKE DevOps IaC SAML OpenID Single Sign-On

What you'll do

  • Lead the design and optimization of secure cloud infrastructure across multiple CSPs.
  • Ensure compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards in IL2-IL6 environments.
  • Drive incident response and environment hardening for mission-critical applications.
  • Coordinate with cybersecurity teams to accelerate accreditation timelines.
  • Mentor and lead cloud operations teams in hybrid, multi-cloud architectures.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines and automation tools for rapid deployment.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience supporting secure DoD cloud environments (IL2–IL6)
  • 5+ years of expertise in Cloud-native security architecture and DevOps for Kubernetes production systems
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools
  • Proven leadership in managing cloud operations teams
  • Secret clearance and ability to obtain DoD 8570 IAT II Certification within 60 days
  • Bachelor's degree required

Market check

Salary context

This $99,000–$225,000 range sits above 49% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$124,400–$211,725

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$141,975–$211,200

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton is a management and technology consulting firm that provides analytics, digital, engineering, and cybersecurity solutions primarily to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients. Industry: Management & Technology Consulting

Booz Allen Hamilton currently has 629 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $86,800–$198,000 across 616 roles with salary data.

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